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Tuesday Oct 28, 2014

The best candidates for your job post are probably working for the competition. How do you attract them? You’ve just filled a position with your top candidate. Do you let outstanding candidates #2 and #3 just ride off into the sunset? Oracle’s Gessica Chies (pictured left) is an EMEA HCM Sales Consultant and believes there are plenty of recruiting opportunities in the challenging parts of talent acquisition. She urges readers to modernize the recruitment process for innovative results. [Read More]

Wednesday Apr 17, 2013

There are a billion consumers connected to one another via social
networks. One billion of us! That’s a lot of eyeballs and a lot of
opportunity for marketers to reach us online. They can choose to
interrupt our conversations with low-performing display ads, or become
the topic of conversation so that we spread the word more naturally
through trusted recommendations and referrals. Marketers are
increasingly choosing the latter because of its effectiveness. And
employers have caught on to the concept with an eye toward driving
talent referrals and job sharing.

Wednesday Feb 20, 2013

A guest post by Mike Mallin, Oracle Product Strategist by way of SelectMinds

Job seekers’ are finding that their
social networks are more effective than job boards
and company Websites. In response, companies are
spending increasing time and money on LinkedIn,
Facebook, and Twitter with mixed results, leaving
them hungry for real solutions. In this post, Mike
Mallin, a fresh voice from SelectMinds, explains
how Oracle’s Taleo talent acquisition offering,
bolstered by the SelectMinds solution, can
increase high-quality hires and create a
cost-efficient social recruitment marketing
channel. The proof is in the results with eBay and
its social employee referral program.